World Trade Center Bhubaneswar in association with the office of The Additional Director, Directorate General of Goods and Service Tax Intelligence (DGGI) Bhubaneswar Zone organized a workshop on Stress management for the intelligence officials of the directorate. 

The workshop was facilitated by Mr. Zahid Akhtar, Master Trainer, One Life ZS Eduventures Pvt. Ltd and Mr. Summon Patra, Trainer, One Life ZS Eduventures Pvt. Ltd. The workshop aimed at understanding the causes of stress, how it affects an individual’s personality at different levels of his /her professional and personal life and how one could effectively deal with stress.

Mr. Santosh Mohanty, IRS, Additional Director, DGGI in his inaugural address shared his views on the importance of stress management and why it is more essentially needed for the officials of the intelligence directorate. He also deliberated that efficiency and effectiveness of the services rendered by the directorate is highly sensitive and that it is very obvious that the officials who are involved in serving its mandate shall be getting stressed out in due course of their services. He further appreciated the concept of conducting such workshops being viewed as highly essential by the Ministry. 

Mr. Zahid Akhtar and Mr. Summon Patra further facilitated the workshop by providing insights on topics such as what is stress, types of stress, identifying the symptoms of work stress, causes of harmful work stress, the power of perception, reactions to stress, managing and balancing stress. They also explained as to how effective management of stress could enhance physical and physiological health enabling the individual to feel more energized and perform with a positive attitude. The activities encouraged the officials to perceive events from different points of view. They also explained various skills one could develop in order to reduce stress levels such as following a stress diet, physical exercise, visualization, mindfulness, thought awareness and work with a positive attitude. 

Earlier Ms. Nimeshika Natarajan, Assistant Director, World Trade Center Bhubaneswar welcomed the officials to the workshop and also took the opportunity to introduce the facilitators. 

Ms. Asha Mohapatra, Assistant Manager, World Trade Center Bhubaneswar proposed the vote of thanks.